srobrien Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Just installed this last night and have to say so far im very impressed. Lightning fast compared to vista, installed norton IS in less than 30 seconds Still have to have a lookie over all the features but its looking good R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 hmm i may be tempted then, i have a very quick machine but its inevitably dragged down by the Vista plague Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanski Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Sounds good mate keep us posted - surely its more than that idiot on the advert where he has 2 window panes side by side - wow breakthrough thinking!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anubis Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I've got it too - serious improvement and is much more refined. If you have Vista, get rid of it and go to 7. Vista = makes you do what it wants to do Windows 7 = it does what you want it to do Plus nothing was incompatible when I upgraded and I have a lot of dev software on their too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Just installed (Windows7) last night installed norton IS in less than 30 seconds Norton is made of fail and AIDS. Horrible piece of bloatware. But yeah, Win7 is a great improvement over Vista in terms of how it structures things on the desktop, but it's not really any different underneath. Few tweaks here and there sure, but it's still Windows. Plus I'm still bitter that Vista worked first time for me, but with Win7 I had to spend 6 hours trying a billion different drivers for my 9800GTX before the stupid thing would work out the resolution for my monitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srobrien Posted November 5, 2009 Author Share Posted November 5, 2009 Norton is made of fail and AIDS. Hmm never had any issues with it, used it for years. What would you suggest then? R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Norton is made of fail and AIDS. Hmm never had any issues with it, used it for years. What would you suggest then? R +1 and LMAO years ago they actually let virus's out they had the cure to, to make some dosh. its invasive, system resource hogging EVIL. i run comodo myself, is lovely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicon2k Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I am a norton man and *thouchwood* have never had a virus is in all the years i have been using it. I stole a copy of windows 7 from 7 and stuck it on my laptop. Thus far i have not noticed any speed improvements from vista, in fact the start up seems a little slower. The laptop is a fairly high spec and i did a clean install of 7. It seems to me that they have follow the same philosophy as with Office 2007 and the Ribbon interface, I.e Pretty much the same functionality but all moved into a diffrent place. Like, what the hell is the show desktop button doing in the bottom right hand corner? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanski Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Money old and rope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srobrien Posted November 5, 2009 Author Share Posted November 5, 2009 Money old and rope Yeah if you pay for it R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Norton is made of fail and AIDS. +1 Sophos FTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuck Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 what the hell is the show desktop button doing in the bottom right hand corner? Windows key and M I have Windows 7, got it on the prepay price of £45 from Pc World. Its a big step up from XP which was the last OS I used on my old PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 As far as ditching that bastard piece of 'software' that is Norton goes, try Avast. It does everything you need it to do and is very unobtrusive, as well as using about a tenth of the memory that Norton wants. Get the home version for free mind, not the Pro version unless you really want to make use of the extra bits. Others are Sophos (as mentioned) and AVG, or anything apart from Norton or McAfee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kObi Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Norton is made of fail and AIDS. +100 i rarly use a virus scan. i used to use avast, its good. But doesn't that last for a year? im sure after it tried to get me to pay for it. avg ok too. But i do like windows 7. tried it in beta, thought it was ok. went back to vista, now im back on 7 and its great. looks good n everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3FIDDYZ Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Norton is made of fail and AIDS. Hmm never had any issues with it, used it for years. What would you suggest then? R +1 and LMAO years ago they actually let virus's out they had the cure to, to make some dosh. its invasive, system resource hogging EVIL. i run commando myself, is lovely. Betty Swollocks? Been using 7 for about 6 weeks now and love it, had no issues, beats vista hands down. (Had no issues with vista either though apart from speed!) Great features if your a Office 2007 user for live view of docs within My Computer, you dont have to open the Ap to view.. Run Sophos, great product, just sits there and does what it needs to when its needed!! Think lots use AVG too though.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmarky Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 As far as ditching that bastard piece of 'software' that is Norton goes, try Avast. It does everything you need it to do and is very unobtrusive, as well as using about a tenth of the memory that Norton wants. Get the home version for free mind, not the Pro version unless you really want to make use of the extra bits. Others are Sophos (as mentioned) and AVG, or anything apart from Norton or McAfee. Avast is pretty awesome for a free virus checker, i use sophos but only cos my work uses it and i work from home. As for windows 7 ive just ordered a new pc with the following spec for those who like shiney large numbers: Case: Antec Three Hundred Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower 600W Processor: Core i7 920 8MB Cache Socket 1366 CPU Cooler: CoolIt Domino ALC CPU Liquid Cooler Optimisation and Tuning: Overclocking Graphics Card 1: Radeon HD4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card 2: Radeon HD4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-Express Memory: 6GB Corsair DDR3 1333MHz C9 Triple Channel Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58 UD3R Socket 1366 Hard Disk Drive One: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 32MB Cache SATA 300 Hard Disk Drive Two: None Optical Drive One: LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray Reader & HD-DVD ROM Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) Also Ordered a Matrox triplehead2go and 3 x 22" monitors Am looking forward to testing windows 7, stayed away from vista and been using XP for far too long. Recieved my developers version of Windows 7 enterprise, windows 7 Ultimate and Windows Server 2008 R2 in the post from microsoft yesterday so may have a little play before my new pc arrives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walbertonio Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Saucy stuff sir - should see if you can add a pair of SSD's to raid for your OS, and use the spinpoint as a storage drive! Another suggestion on the AV front - ESET Smart Security, worth the premium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 kaspersky anti-virus or internet security 2010 for me any day of the week, never ever let me down and as cured many other peoples pc where all the rest failed madmarky, have also just upgraded my pc internals windows 7 64bit AMD x3 720 BE ASUS M4A79XTD EVO 4GB G.Skill DDR3 500GB WD black caviar 32mb cache 21.5" acer monitor 1920x1080 and last but not least - GIGABYTE ATI HD5850 1GB graphic card with free Dirt2 game (when it's launched) should see me right for a few years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmarky Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 kaspersky anti-virus or internet security 2010 for me any day of the week, never ever let me down and as cured many other peoples pc where all the rest failed madmarky, have also just upgraded my pc internals windows 7 64bit AMD x3 720 BE ASUS M4A79XTD EVO 4GB G.Skill DDR3 500GB WD black caviar 32mb cache 21.5" acer monitor 1920x1080 and last but not least - GIGABYTE ATI HD5850 1GB graphic card with free Dirt2 game (when it's launched) should see me right for a few years Nice one, im hoping this pc lasts as long as my current, i cant stand upgrading all the time its such a expensive route. Am looking forward to playing games using the panaramic options, driving games with wing mirrors and large periferal vision looks so cool. Am glad work give me some money towards it also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kObi Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 marky that looks like a beast!!! 3 x 22" moniters BUT! i'd have to go with neo's cause im an amd fanboy haha only changes i'd make with neo's build is Mobo: Asus Crosshair III Formula AMD 790FX and i wouldnt touch an ati gfx card if it was the last one on earth! but i've no idea what one i'd get. Nice rigs though boys! kaspersky anti-virus or internet security 2010 for me any day of the week, never ever let me down and as cured many other peoples pc where all the rest failed madmarky, have also just upgraded my pc internals windows 7 64bit AMD x3 720 BE ASUS M4A79XTD EVO 4GB G.Skill DDR3 500GB WD black caviar 32mb cache 21.5" acer monitor 1920x1080 and last but not least - GIGABYTE ATI HD5850 1GB graphic card with free Dirt2 game (when it's launched) should see me right for a few years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmarky Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Its very interesting cos ive always been a fan of AMD and would never touch ATI graphics cards either. The reason ive gone for what ive gone for is a mate of mine owns a company called Wired2fire, they specialise in overlocking pc and are highly rated by a lot of the magazines. I spoke to one of the company Gurus who said to me that there has been a lot of problem with Nvidia later spec grahics cards and said the current ATI lines are bulletproof. Ive been out of the hardware industry for many years now so im taking his word for it, im sure the prrof will be in the pudding so to speak. The actual machine ive bought is a slightly customised version of a build that won PC Gamers editors choice this year. Ive had a few problems with my machine overhating and this machine is supposed to stay ultra cool as it has some part of it water cooled. Its already been built and been overlocked and is currently sitting on a bench being put through its paces so i know when i get it it should cope with whatever i can throw at it. If anyone is in the market for a new machine i can seriously recommend www.wired2fire.co.uk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 i've always bought nvidia until now, plus ati's drivers are so much better than they used to be but still not perfect, then again what is. the last few rounds of GPU wars as been won by ATI (4800 and 5800 series cards) on price and performance, wonder what the g300 series is gonna be like whenever it gets released Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamby Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 im also running windows 7 i upgraded from xp as i refused to install that sh1t vista onto my PC anyway in response to anti virus software im currently using AVG 9 wouldnt use any other Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunset350z Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Getting windows 7 on the weekend hopefully, free!!, as my bro is a computer technician at a college Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamby Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 mine was free windows 7 ultimate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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